Quote Originally Posted by Merle View Post
Yesterday i transfered from Balmung to Ragnarok. When i tried to log in, one message said that i had to change my name because it was already in use. I had to change from "Merle Valentine" to "Merle Nyalentine". If you search "Merle Valentine" on lodestone profiles you won't find anything on any server. So... why i had to change? ><
Character was created but not logged in apparently. I recall seeing this posted elsewhere.

FWIW I tried to transfer last night around midnight eastern, no dice. Kept getting the "No characters available for transfer." statement.
Tried again at 7am eastern ... click click boom ... 6 minutes later, the character is on the destination world and ready to play.

Whereas it's not a solution, half the issue is the sheer number of people trying to utilize the service. Sure WoW can do it in minutes now, but they don't have thousands of people trying to move at once nowadays, when they did, it too was congested and problematic.